Institute Publications

Browse our collection of guides, books, briefs and other publications aimed at providing high quality, thought provoking information
for teachers, families, policy makers and all stakeholders in the field of early childhood.

New Featured Publications

2017 Annual Report

Annual Report for the New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute

Throughout this report, you will see that
the components of our work intersect
with each other. We build systems, we
innovate, experiment with, and evaluate
new paradigms – all the time with an
eye towards implementation, and then
we support policy change.This diversity
of impact comes from our focus on and
deployment of a diverse and talented
range of people.

Coaching – individualized professional development grounded in the daily
practice of the early childhood classroom –
is one of the most effective strategies to equip our workforce for success
(Kraft, Blazar, & Hogan, 2018).
In this brief, we discuss:

why we should expand access to coaching,

what makes coaching effective in a birth-to-five context, and

what steps New York State has taken to create a coaching infrastructure.

A Companion Piece to The NYS Early Learning Guidelines for Families and Teachers

The more you learn together about a child and how she develops and learns, the better
you can support her. The New York State Early Learning Guidelines (The Guidelines) can
help. Use this document to get started with the Early Learning Guidelines.

Institute Policy & Research

The QUALITYstarsNY Assessment Report

QUALITYstarsNY: New York State's Bold Step to Ensure Access to Excellence in Early Childhood Education

The New York State Early Childhood Advisory Council and the New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute are pleased to announce the release of the results of the first-ever comparative analysis of performance data on programs participating in QUALITYstarsNY, New York State’s early childhood quality rating and improvement system.

The policy brief contains policy recommendations for making positive change in the field of early childhood care and education.
In latest issue, we present an overview of our workforce policy recommendations. This is the first policy brief in a series the series: "Building the Pipeline for a Successful
Early Childhood Workforce in New York."

A Profile of Early Childhood Educators in New York's Center- and School-Based Programs

To develop a profile of the workforce, we surveyed directors, teachers, and assistant
teachers in licensed community- and school-based early childhood centers in New
York serving children birth to five years old

The Institute Archive

Early Childhood News (2008 - 2012)

The Institutes Periodic Newsletter for Early Childhood Professionals

Early Childhood News was a periodic publication produced by the institute from 2008 to 2012.
Each issue included news from the field, news from the Institute,
as well as activities, advice and assistance for early childhood professionals.